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Senryud Gafu Gyorui no Bu (潜龍堂画譜魚類の部, Album of Pictures of Fish and Shells by Senryudo)

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double page spread with print showing block of Japanese text with fish and lobster

Senryud Gafu Gyorui no Bu (潜龍堂画譜魚類の部, Album of Pictures of Fish and Shells by Senryudo)

Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: 1879-81
Medium: Woodblock prints on kozo (楮) paper, possibly hand coloured
Object number: O.2008.28.M.2
Description2 of 3 fukuro-toji books (袋綴じ, one disbound) printed in Japan during the Meiji Period (1879 - 1881). Fish and shells, for instance, crayfish (沙裡蟹), sea bream (棘鬣魚), turtles (e.g. sea turtles, turtles with sea wead), shellfish (e.g. clams, short-necked clams).